Talk:List of English words without rhymes

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Male rhymes to check
Just a place to keep track of male rhymes that don't have many words in them.

propose that wounds be moved to list of words with obscure rhymes. Compare with Elizabethan use of "zounds," which does not rhyme with "hounds" but is a derrivative of "God's wounds" or "Christ's wounds" like this: "God  'swounds"...


 * asterisks mark apparent refractory rhymes which might be added to the article.


 * eɪ rhymes
 * -eɪtʃ (aitch, nache)
 * -eɪtʃt (aitched*)
 * -eɪʒ (beige, greige)
 * -eɪʃt ("creched"*? [/ɛ/ pronunciation has rhymes])
 * -eɪθt (graithed, (good) faithed)

[Help, please! kwami (talk) has a bug in his copy of the OED which won't allow these rhymes to be checked]
 * æ rhymes
 * -æʒ (?)
 * -æld (palled (around), corralled)
 * -ælt (shalt)
 * -ælts (Alz, shalts (as in "shalts and shalt-nots"))
 * -æpts (adapts, rapts [& periapts -slant])
 * -æð (?)
 * -æðz (?)
 * -ævd (halved, calved)


 * ɛ rhymes
 * -ɛŋk 	(Penk, elench, Schenck) obscure
 * -ɛps 	(reps, seps, preps, steps, Led Zep's)
 * -ɛð 	edh* (only Sp. merced "gift")
 * -ɛðz 	edhs*
 * -ɛzd	(be-fezzed, lezzed (out))

I've hatted what appears to be mostly untouched since 2019 at least. --128.164.177.55 (talk) 20:16, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

pint

 * night --Nobo2022 talk 012:416, 16 October 2017

english
Isn't this page titled "List of ENGLISH words without rhymes"? Why do people insist on trying to use words from other languages to rhyme these unrhymable words? Also, should slang that is not part of majority use be counted? Or, for that matter, made up "words" like names and such? If I say that glorange is a word I often use to mean "something made up" or that my parents named my sister Murple, that doesn't mean that these now become a part of the common contemporary English language and therefore orange and purple are now no longer rhymeless. This is why we have to stick to mainstream, scholarly accepted English language dictionaries for official word lists.

Silver
Does "silver" have any rhymes? Can I add it? Dylanga 03:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC) Wait: I just read the rest of the article and had my question answered... never mind.

Silver rhymes with shiver, sliver, liver, never or anything else with "er"


 * see definition of rhyme, sil is the stressed syllable, therefore the sounds il-ver must be repeated for it to be a true rhyme and not just a slant rhyme. maxsch (talk) 19:52, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

To find a rhyme for "silver"
 * Or any "rhymeless" rhyme

Requires only will, ver-
 * bosity, and time. - Stephen Sondheim.

Silver rhymes with kill her, quilt fur, still purr, will spur, whisper, river, refer, incur, shrill turn, quick slur, sinister, trickster, deliver, etc. The list goes on. Just match the syllables. -Sheldon Miller.

Consider the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall-of-Fame baseball player and hero Willie Stargell. His given name is "Wilver." I can come up with a poem almost instantly.

Glove of stone

Bat of silver.

Heart of gold:

Stargell, Wilver.

WHPratt (talk) 04:39, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Parmesan
How about parmesan or muenster? Do they count as rhymeless words

Plankton
what about yankton in South Dakota

Film and Pilm
Pilm is totally a word. It appears in Webster's Third, a dictionary that doesn't lie!

Citrus
Rhymes with vitrous. So removing. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:21, 29 April 2014 (UTC).

obscure
If one is going to have a section of words that have obscure rhymes, then one needs to define obscure. It's likely to include an arbitrary component, e.g. something like "only 'x' number of mentions in 'y' amount of time (or 'z' number of internet mentions)." That would seem fine to me -- even if adjusted over time, as we should anticipate. But obscure needs to be defined. Perhaps there's a shortcut -- dictionaries seem to use the term like they use the term, "archaic." So whatever standard the dictionary uses might suffice -- or use the dictionary itself, if not its standard (e.g.), "If the OED uses the word 'obscure' in its definition, then it's in this list." 2601:204:D200:7000:B98D:6F18:5782:CF5B (talk) 13:03, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Vozhd
Are there any words that rhyme with vozhd (note: the "zh" in "vozhd" is pronounced like the "s" in "vision", and the "o" in "vozhd" is pronounced like the "a" in "father") IsraeliEditor54 (talk) 08:49, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
 * massaged, collaged 174.91.170.173 (talk) 19:45, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Canadian/British pronunciation of against
"against" in American English rhymes with "incensed", but in many Canadian and some British accents it has an "ay" sound, /əˈɡeɪnst/. I can't think of any rhymes with this pronunciation 174.91.170.173 (talk) 19:52, 9 December 2023 (UTC)